latest news and war situation May 19, 2022

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Since May 16, the number of Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers who surrendered at the Mariupol steel mill has risen to 1730. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) keeps a register of all of them in order to trace their arrest and to protect them. help contact their family.

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others 771 Ukrainian defenders who stayed at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, all from Azov Battalionhave left the metallurgical plant on the last day, with 1,730 soldiers having surrendered and surrendered to the Russian armed forces since Monday, as reported today by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Major General Igor Konashénkov has assured that “anyone who needs hospital treatment will receive help in medical institutions” in the city of Novoazovsk, in the Donetsk region.

It is not known how many Ukrainian soldiers are still in the steel factory.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported today that it is a Registration of the hundreds of Ukrainian POWs who have endured at the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, to follow up on their arrest and help them get in touch with their families.

This registration is done by means of a form in which the soldiers write down their name, date of birth and details of a close family member, the Red Cross explains in a statement.

“The ICRC must have immediate access to all prisoners of war wherever they may be, in accordance with the mandate granted by states through the 1949 Geneva Conventions,” the centennial organization recalled.

It has also insisted on its right to interrogate such detainees without witnesses, or to visit them without any restrictions on duration or frequency.

Russia, for its part, has the commanders of the Azov Battalion Sergei Velichko and Konstantin Nemichev, on the list of search and seizure for allegedly attempting to kill at least eight Russian soldiers in Ukraine’s Kherson region, according to the Interfax agency.

His files appear on the Domestic list of wanted persons ‘in connection with a criminal case’. The Russian Public Prosecutor’s Office has requested that Azov’s regiment be declared a terrorist organization because of its “Nazi” character, whose militants are “national heroes” for Ukraine.

the front line

With the fall of the Azovstal steel mill and the capture of Mariupol, the main port of Donbas, Moscow has gained full control of the Sea of ​​Azov and has conquered the entire line connecting the annexed Crimean peninsula to the separatist regions of She and Donbas have begun to redeploy some of their troops to other fronts.

Donbas, made up of the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts or regions, remains the area where most of the attacks are concentrated. The governor of the Lugansk region, Serhity Gaidai, has assured on Telegram that there have been several attacks in that region in recent hours. “Most of today’s shelling has been carried out in Severodonetsk and nearby towns. The Russians are still trying to cut off the ‘road of life’ through the center of the Lugansk region, the road between Lysychansk and Bakhmut.”

At least four people have been killed in a series of attacks carried out by Russian troops on Severodonetsk in recent hours.

Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych has said Ukrainian saboteurs blew up the tracks for an armored train carrying Russian troops in the occupied city of Melitopol in the south of the country.

On the other hand, at least one civilian has been killed and several injured today in a Ukrainian attack on a border town in Russia’s Kursk region, the governor of that Russian federated entity, Román Starovoit, has denounced.

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